Professional Sound - February 2018 - Page 62

PROJECT
FILE
Royer Labs’ new R-10 ribbon microphone is currently on tour with two
Grammy Award-winning artists: British vocalist Sam Smith and American
pop/rock band Maroon 5. Jim Ebdon serves as the FOH engineer for the
two acts and in addition to using the R-10 on guitar for both, he is also
using the Royer SF-24 phantom powered stereo ribbon microphone and
the R-121 Live.
“Modern sound systems have become so accurate that microphone
type and placement has become more important than ever,” Ebdon says.
“I’d been hearing many positive reports about the R-10’s ability to capture
electric guitar, so I was eager to give the mic a try. Just like my experience
with the R-121 and SF-24, the R-10 is another very capable Royer ribbon.”
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Tommy Francis, owner of U.S.-based integrator JTEK Customs, oversees
AV and security installations for all Ruth’s Chris Steak House restaurants.
For the chain’s new location by Toronto’s Pearson International Airport,
he reached out to London, ON-based audio specialist Tomahawk AV to
design a multi-zone audio system.
“We were looking at a fairly large space with several zones and we
needed good clean sound coming out of each one. That meant an amp
with a high channel count and plenty of output per channel,” says Toma-
hawk’s Eric Sidles. Sidles’ solution was a pair of Powersoft Quattrocanali
amplifiers for eight channels of output to power the 36 Community
loudspeakers. Thirty of these were D6 in-ceiling loudspeakers for the
restaurant’s interior, with six CS6 surface-mounted loudspeakers for the
outdoor patio.
One of the latest projects for Canadian mix engineer/producer Richard
Chycki was a 5.1 mix of The Tragically Hip – A National Celebration.
The iconic Canadian band’s final concert performance was originally
mixed for a television broadcast prior to the retirement and tragic passing
of singer Gord Downie. Chycki’s new stereo and 5.1 mixes were done at
his own studio, Street of Dreams, and Noble Street Studios in Toronto on
a surround monitoring system from Genelec. The system included three
8351 three-way Smart Active Monitors in an L-C-R array, with 8341s for left
and right rear surrounds and a 7370A Subwoofer.
“I had been looking for a speaker update that had stronger focus and
imaging, and that’s when I spoke with Will Eggleston and John Whitcore of
Genelec, both of whom I had known for years, and they said I should check
out Genelec’s new The Ones,” says Chycki. “When I first connected them up
in my studio, I immediately noticed there’s almost a tactile feeling to the
speaker in the imaging where I suddenly felt that I could grab elements
— like in a drum kit, the hi-hat is there and I feel like I can just reach out
and touch it. I really enjoy that feeling for critical listening where I could
experience that amount of imaging to help me make better mix choices.”
Tens of thousands of Dutch music fans celebrated the national holiday of
Koningsdag in Breda with international EDM superstar Armin Van Buuren
and over 20 other artists at the annual 538 Koningsdag festival. As usual,
Dutch production rental company Ampco Flashlight was called on to
provide the audio and lighting equipment for the event and relied on a
loudspeaker system from Adamson Systems Engineering. The system
was based on Adamson’s E-Series products, featuring main arrays of 20 E15
three-way, true line source cabinets per side, plus infill arrays with eight E12
three-way, full range cabinets per side and delay hangs of 12 E12s per side.
“We had a lineup of leading national artists and DJs, a big crowd,
and some of the world’s most skilled engineers asking for a premium PA,
and that’s why we have a system like Adamson’s E-Series in our inventory,”
says Dennis van der Haagen of Ampco Flashlight.